Hispanic Internet Resources

Academic bodies

• ACLAIIR (Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources)
• Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland: professional body for researchers.
• Canning House (Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council, London)
• Euskaltzaindia: the Academy of the Basque language
• Institut d'Estudis Catalans: the Academy of the Catalan language and an institute of Catalan studies
• Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London
• Instituto Cervantes: promotes Spanish culture; includes Library catalogues
• Instituto Camões: promotes Portuguese culture
• REDIAL (Red Europea de Información y Documentación): includes Latin American links for international organisations, regional organisations, EU, UN, search engines, etc.
• SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Materials): largely for librarians and booksellers
• SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies): SLAS is the principal association in the United Kingdom for those interested in the study of Latin American affairs. Its members include academics, diplomats, journalists, and research analysts from business and non-governmental organisations.

Architecture

• BRAZIL:
  • Vitruvius: covers architecture in Brazil and elsewhere; includes journal Arquitextos

Archives

• SPAIN:
  • PARES: Portal de Archivos Españoles (Ministerio de Cultura)
• PORTUGAL:
  • BAD (Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas).
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • H-Net (The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University)

Art

• ALL:
  • Virtual Library Museums Pages

Bibliographies

• SPAIN:
  • Libros editados en España desde 1972 (Ministerio de Cultura)
• PORTUGAL:
  • Porbase: Base nacional de dados bibliográficos (Biblioteca Nacional)
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • HLAS: Handbook of Latin American studies (Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress): Critical bibliography on Latin America, first published in 1935. Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities

Biography

• ALL:
  • World biographical index: gives brief biographical details and worldwide coverage and is an index to the Saur biographical archives
• BRAZIL:
  • Dicionário histórico biográfico brasileiro de 1930 a 1983 (CPDOC - Fundação Getúlio Vargas)

Bookshops/publishers/ distributors

• SPAIN:
  • Editoriales españolas http://www.guia-editores.org/
  • Guía de Editores de España
  • Iberbook - Sánchez Cuesta (booksellers, Madrid)
  • Marcial Pons (booksellers, Madrid): law, economics, humanities, politics, history
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Materials): Includes listings of Professional Organisations and Meetings of the Ibero-American Booktrade
  • Libros Centroamericanos (Redlands, California): Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
  • Libros Latinos (Redlands, California) Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Caribbean; includes Libros Centroamericanos
• PORTUGAL:
  • Associação Portuguesa de Editores e Livreiros: Statistics and legislation on publishing, links to publishers' websites

Current affairs

see Canning House; Embassies; Newspapers

Dictionaries

• SPAIN:
  • Diccionarios y refraneros: Lists dictionaries and includes access to five dictionaries and one dictionary of proverbs
• PORTUGAL:
  • Dicionário universal língua portuguesa (Texto Editora)
  • Dicionário da língua portuguesa (Porto Editora)

Economics

• LATIN AMERICA:
  • Economy in Latin America (LANIC page)
• CHILE:
  • Chile Economic Report (CORFO, Corporación de Fomento de la Producción)

Electronic journals

• LATIN AMERICA:
  • Arara (Art and Architecture of the Americas) (Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex)
• BRAZIL:
  • Hispanista: primeira revista eletrônica dos hispanistas do Brasil (Niterói): language, literature, opinion

Electronic texts

• LATIN AMERICA:
  • LatAm Studies
  • Biblioteca Ayacucho Digital
• SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA:
  • Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes: includes Novela Hispanoamericana del s. XIX
  • Ibero-American Electronic Text Series: (University of Wisconsin-Madison) project devoted to Iberian and Latin American works in the humanities
• SPAIN:
  • Libro: the Library of Iberian Resources On-line (American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas): principally recent, but out-of-print university press monographs on the medieval history of the Iberian Peninsula
• GALICIA:
  • Centro Ramon Pinheiro: includes MedDB, Base de datos da lírica profana galego-portuguesa
• BRAZIL:
  • Biblioteca Virtual da Escola do Futuro (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil): Full texts of Brazilian literary classics.
  • Literatura brasileira: textos literarios en meio eletrônico (Núcleo de Pesquisas em Informática, Lingüística e Literatura, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
• PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL:
  • Biblioteca virtual do estudante: Portuguese and Brazilian literary texts
• CHILDREN'S LITERATURE:
  • Biblioteca Virtual de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil: Spanish and Spanish American; includes electronic texts

Embassies

• Brazilian Embassy, Washington
• Brazilian Embassy, London
• Mexican Embassy, London
• Nicaraguan Embassy, London
• Peruvian Embassy, London
• Portuguese Embassy, London
• Venezuelan Embassy, London

Film

• LATIN AMERICA:
  • Informaciones sobre el cine latinoamericano (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin)

Gateways

• ALL:
  • Iberia and Ibero-America on the Internet: A Selected List (University of Minnesota, University Libraries)
  • Iberolinks (Universität Hamburg)
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • Internet Resources for Latin America (compiled by Molly Molloy, New Mexico State University Library)
  • ISLA: Information Services Latin America
  • Lanic (Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas): This is the main gateway for Latin American information on the internet. It provides access to library catalogues, specialised databases, internet access tools and information, FTP archives, economic/social statistics from Latin America and links to most internet sites in all Latin American countries
  • Latin America Data Base (University of New Mexico)
  • Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Portal
  • Linksammlung (Ibero-Amerikansiches Institut)
• BASQUE:
  • Useful links for Basque Studies (University of Nevada, Reno Libraries)
• LANGUAGES:
  • Languages On The Web: Links for Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish language learning, dictionaries, literary texts, newspapers and magazines, radio, etc.

Genealogy

• SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA:
  • Alberto & Arturo García Carraffa, Enciclopedia heráldica hispano-americana: index only

Government and politics

• ALL:
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of Foreign Governments (CIA)
  • Governments on the web
• SPAIN:
  • Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official Gazette)
  • Portavoz del Gobierno
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • Political Database of the Americas (Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University)

Libraries and library catalogues in the UK

• Cambridge University
• COPAC: union catalogue of member libraries of the Consortium of Research Libraries. There are 23 Members of CURL of which 20 are current contributors to COPAC
• Essex University
• Glasgow University
• Institute of Historical Research, University of London
• John Rylands University Library of Manchester catalogue
• Liverpool University
• School of Advanced Studies, University of London, Libraries: includes Institute of Historical Research, Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA),  Warburg Institute, Senate House

Libraries/archives abroad

• ALL:
  • LibDex: the library index, access to library catalogues and websites
• SPAIN:
  • Biblioteca Nacional, Spain
  • Catálogo colectivo del patrimonio bibliográfico español: Union catalogue of Spanish libraries
  • Catálogos de bibliotecas españolas (Grupo de Investigación de Tecnologías de la Información de la Universidad de Murcia)
• BASQUE COUNTRY:
  • Fundación Sancho el Sabio, Vitoria-Gasteiz
• CATALONIA:
  • Biblioteca de Catalunya
  • Catàleg Col·lectiu de les Universitats de Catalunya
• PORTUGAL:
  • Biblioteca Nacional, Portugal
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • Libraries and archives in Latin America (LANIC page)
  • Catálogo Colectivo de Impresos Latinoamericanos (CCILA)
  • Archive of Early American Images (JCB)
• BRAZIL:
  • Biblioteca Nacional
  • Bibliotecas no Brasil
• UNITED STATES:
  • Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room

Literature

• (see also Electronic texts) and Children's literature
• ALL:
  • Voice of the Shuttle (University of California, Santa Barbara): includes electronic texts
• SPANISH:
  • Medieval and Golden Age:
  • Cervantes website (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)
  • Cervantes project 2001 (Texas A&M University)
  • Parnaseo: ciber-paseo por la literatura (Universitat de València)
  • LEMIR: literatura medieval y renacentista (Universitat de València)
  • Teatro de los Siglos de Oro (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
  • GRISO: Grupo Investigación Siglo de Oro  - site being modified
  • SEMYR: Seminario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas (Universidad de Salamanca)
  • Archivo virtual de la Edad de Plata (1868-1936) (Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid)
• LATIN AMERICAN:
  • Latin American literature (LANIC page)

Manuscripts

• Philobiblon (University of California at Berkeley): Catalogue of medieval Spanish, Catalan, Gallego-Portuguese literary manuscripts

Maps

• CaribMap (cartographic history of the Caribbean)

Newspapers

• ALL:
  • AJR (American Journalism Review) Newslink
  • Refdesk: newspapers USA and worldwide
  • Latin American newspapers
  • USA and worldwide newspapers
  • Spanish newspapers
  • Worldwide newspapers (particularly good for Latin America)
• SPAIN:
  • El País
  • El Periódico
  • La Vanguardia
• BRAZIL:
  • O Globo
• PERU:
  • Caretas

Newspaper search engines

• SPAIN:
  • Prensa digital: Selects daily news stories from Spanish online newspapers. Articles can be searched by keyword in headline
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • Mundo Latino

Periodicals

• Title abbreviations:
  • HLAS journal abbreviations
• Indexes:
  • HLAS: Handbook of Latin America Studies
  • LAPTOC: periodicals tables of contents (ARL project)
  • COMPLUDOC: base de datos de artículos de revistas (Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid): contents of over 1000 journals in science, health, social sciences and humanities
• LATIN AMERICA
  • Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciElo)
  • Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (Redalyc

Search engines

• List of search engines and directories in Spain

Statistics

• ALL:
  • OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web (University of Auckland Library)
  • Governments on the Web: Institutions in the Area Statistics
  • UN Statistics Division
• SPAIN AND PORTUGAL:
  • Population Reference Bureau: has full range of population statistics
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • Latin American & Caribbean Government Documents Project (Cornell University)

Telephone directories

• SPAIN:
  • Spanish telephone directories
• PORTUGAL:
  • Portuguese telephone directories
• LATIN AMERICA:
  • LANIC List (Directories section)

Travel

• Iberia
• RENFE - train information

Contact

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